Very Cold People

Guardian''s Best Fiction of the Year

''One of the most original and exciting writers working in English today'' - Jhumpa Lahiri

Once home to the country''s most illustrious families, Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is now an unforgiving place awash with secrets. Forged in this frigid landscape, Ruthie learns how the town''s prim facade conceals a deeper, darker history and how silence often masks a legac...